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katyfortner's review against another edition
3.25
The writing is very good and really pulled at your heart strings. The author is very strong to have gone through all of this and still coming out on top of life.
Graphic: Cancer, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Alcohol
Minor: Abortion
jessybean's review against another edition
5.0
I was gripped from beginning to end, the writing was heart breaking.
I love Japanese breakfast so I’m not surprised that the prose of the book flowed so beautifully. It perfectly portrayed the difficult relationship she had with her mother and highlighted that love is not black and white.
Graphic: Emotional abuse and Death of parent
olivia_piepmeier's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Cancer, Death, Emotional abuse, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, and Death of parent
Moderate: Alcoholism, Body shaming, and Excrement
Minor: Car accident
maxinesf's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Cancer, Death, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, and Death of parent
Moderate: Emotional abuse
Minor: Alcoholism and Drug abuse
kelly_e's review against another edition
3.0
Author: Michelle Zauner
Genre: Memoir
Rating: 3.0
Pub Date: April 21, 2021
T H R E E • W O R D S
Raw • Illuminating • Surface-level
📖 S Y N O P S I S
Crying in H Mart is a memoir about growing up, caregiving, death, grief and identity from Michelle Zauner.
She details growing up as one of the few Korean American kids at her school; of struggling with her mother's high expectations; of time spent with her mother's family in Seoul; of caring for her mother through the end of life; of death and grief; and of reconnecting with her identity.
💭 T H O U G H T S
Sometimes the hype can have an adverse effect on my reading experience, and that was certainly the case with Crying in H Mart. I went in expecting a life-alternating and moving memoir dealing with death and grief, yet I didn't get the emotional depth I'd anticipated.
That's not to say this wasn't an incredibly personal and healing journey for the author, which I imagine it was. It felt like a story which needed to be written, yet not necessarily read. The writing was accessible, and Michelle details an intimate look into the daily routine of caregiving for someone at the end of life. It's always interesting to read about how people discover their culture, especially in grief. And food does play a role throughout, however, I'd expected there to be more of how food is a source of human connection through the good and the bad. I just wanted more depth and emotion.
Crying in H Mart is a beautiful exploration of mother/daughter relationships and an open dialogue on dying and grief, it just wasn't the all encompassing sensory experience I'd been wanting or needing.
📚 R E C O M M E N D • T O
• readers looking for a mother/daughter memoir
• grievers
🔖 F A V O U R I T E • Q U O T E S
"It felt like the world had divided into two different types of people, those who had felt pain and those who had yet to."
"Food was an unspoken language between us, had come to symbolize our return to each other, our bonding, our common ground."
Graphic: Cancer, Death, Emotional abuse, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, and Death of parent
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Drug use, Racism, Vomit, Medical trauma, and Alcohol
Minor: Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Car accident, and Abortion
imrereads's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Body shaming, Cancer, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Racial slurs, Grief, and Death of parent
deetabz's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Cancer, Death, Grief, and Death of parent
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug use, Mental illness, Racism, Medical content, Car accident, Abortion, and Alcohol
Minor: Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Excrement, and Injury/Injury detail
nikkikeist's review against another edition
Graphic: Emotional abuse
miggyfool's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Death of parent, and Alcohol
Moderate: Emotional abuse and Abortion
mheiling's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Cancer, Death, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, and Death of parent
Moderate: Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, and Alcohol
Minor: Addiction, Body shaming, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Car accident, and Abortion